Ungritted streets in Canning Town
Imagine being so cynical and cruel that you choose a performative immigration and asylum policy over an effective one.
Temporary if poorly fitted and not working eInk display on the Elizabeth Line
I’ve run this timeline over and again and the only place neoliberal “meritocracy” ever ends up is fascism.
Apparently “Singapore on Thames” is gone, and Britain will “become the next Silicon Valley” via regulatory independence. Around 78% of Singapore’s citizens live in social housing. Silicon Valley has a housing crisis. In this sense, the Tory line is more accurate.
It’s interesting that the Tories say of Brexit that we “voted to change our trading relationship with the EU”. This is of course a consequence of Brexit, but I don’t think that that is what anyone voted for.
New micro post on the MarsEdit 5 beta.
I like the “throwing it out there” aspect. Like others, I think a character count would be nice. Call me old-fashioned, but if I right-click on the Dock icon I only get “New Post”. I’d like “New Micro Post” too.
Couldn’t get a micro.blog window to show up on the app until I delete the cache. Odd.
Anyway, seem to have too many Mastodon accounts. Maybe micro.blog only is the way?
Enjoying The Peripheral on Amazon Prime Video. One thing puzzles me, though. Why are the inhabitants of future London so theatrical, given there is, like, nobody left? Does future London represent the triumph of the Ted Talkers?
Theory: the people elect politicians to regulate the markets
Practice: the markets pay off politicians to screw over the people